Need help with frigate and ip camera http based

Configuration
1

Hello,

I have installed frigate and my doorbell is up and running and visible in frigate.
I also have a Maginon IPC 250HDC that i want to integrate in frigate.
Unfortunately with no luck.
on this site maginon all the possible url’s are available and in a browser this works: http:// ipadres /videostream.cgi?rate=0&user=&pwd=

In system->integrations → add the camera as an generic mjpeg IP camera. and a in a lovelace card the stream is visible.
configured for stream: http://ip off camera/videostream.cgi
for snapshot: http:// … /snapshot.cgi

The frigide errorlog:
2023-05-26 23:24:24.043756001 [2023-05-27 01:24:24] watchdog.IPC ERROR : The following ffmpeg logs include the last 100 lines prior to exit.
2023-05-26 23:24:24.044233998 [2023-05-27 01:24:24] ffmpeg.IPC.detect ERROR : Option stimeout not found.
2023-05-26 23:24:24.535550834 [2023-05-27 01:24:24] frigate.video ERROR : IPC: Unable to read frames from ffmpeg process.
2023-05-26 23:24:24.537302249 [2023-05-27 01:24:24] frigate.video ERROR : IPC: ffmpeg process is not running. exiting capture thread…

Any help would be appreciated, totally out of clues
Kind regards,

2

You don’t seem to have added the camera to frigate. But in any event the frigate website is here https://frigate.video/ and their GitHub is the place to go for support.

3

Thank you for your reply
i do have the camera in frigate.
The first camera e.g. doorbell is working the IPC is where its all about.

cameras:
doorbell:
ffmpeg:
inputs:
- path: rtsp://xxxxxxx:[email protected]:8554/Streaming/Channels/101
roles:
- detect
- record
detect:
width: 640
height: 480
fps: 10 # was 5
objects:
track:
- person
snapshots:
enabled: true
timestamp: true
bounding_box: true
IPC:
ffmpeg:
inputs:
- path: http://192.168.x.xxx/videostream.cgi?rate=0&user=xxxxxx&pwd=xxxxxxxx
roles:
- detect
- record
detect:
width: 640
height: 480
fps: 10 # was 5
objects:
track:
- person
- dog
- bicycle
- cat
- car
snapshots:
enabled: true
timestamp: true
bounding_box: true

4

Well that ain’t yaml.

5

Use the preformatted text option to ensure the code you paste doesn’t get mangled by the post formatting
image

6

sorry i dont know how to put in propper yaml intend code. fix code did not do the trick. Again sorry about that.

@reef-actor thank you for your pointer!

i can see the stream in vlc and as hass generic_camera
192.168.x.xxx/videostream.cgi?user=xxxxxx&pwd=xxxxxx

in frigate i tried:

go2rtc:
  streams:
    mjpeg_cam: "ffmpeg:{http://user:[email protected]/videostream.cgi?user=xxxx&pwd=xxxxxx}#video=h264#hardware"

cameras:
  mjpeg_cam:
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/mjpeg_cam    ype or paste code here

i also tried:

go2rtc:
  streams:
    generic_camera: hass:IPC-250HDC
7

@FritsOv remove the curly brackets {} and you are fine :slight_smile:
Ask me how I know :wink:

br,
Raymond

8

You read the docs?

9

:smile:
I did read the docs, but I interpreted them also as if the curly brackets should be included
:joy::joy:
One is never to old to learn…
Whahaha
Br
Raymond